Convict Criminology and Social Justice Advocacy: Toward Radical Change

New Directions in Citizen Justice and Radical Social Change

The law-psychology movement emerged in the 1960s with a steadfast commitment to humanizing the law and legal decision making, guided by psychological values and insights. Many observers note that the movement has mostly failed to meet its objectives, unable to produce social change in any radical or otherwise substantial way. One explanation for these disappointing results is that no systematic...

MSc in CRIMINOLOGY and CRIMINAL JUSTICE

• Option Essays In each of Michaelmas and Hilary Terms, students were required to take two optional seminar courses (out of a choice of three in Michaelmas and four in Hilary). These were examined by essays, the titles of which were posted on Friday of 6 week, to be submitted by noon on Friday of ninth week. Each essay was to be no less than 3,500 and no more than 5,000 words, including footnot...

Destiny Adams , Criminology and Criminal Justice

Effective social justice advocacy: a theory-of-change framework for assessing progress.

This article offers a theory-of-change framework for social justice advocacy. It describes broad outcome categories against which activists, donors and evaluators can assess progress (or lack thereof) in an ongoing manner: changes in organisational capacity, base of support, alliances, data and analysis from a social justice perspective, problem definition and potential policy options, visibili...

toWard a pragMatiC fraMEWork for MIxeD-MeTHODS ReSeARCH IN CRIMINAL JustiCE and CriMinology

The divide between qualitative and quantitative research limits our ability to reach a cohesive understanding of crime and criminal justice in the 21st century. Mixed-methods research, which combines qualitative and quantitative methods in a single study, can circumvent this impasse. This paper outlines an easily accessible framework for conducting mixedmethods research. Different mixed-methods...